High Treason 1951

[@ContinentsEdge]

Here I am an American sitting on the edge of the Pacific and I am once again very very grateful to the British nation for its creativity in making this marvelous film. I just happened upon it and am so fortunate that I did so. It to me captures the spirit of the British people - understated courage and fierce attention to detail May I say Rule Britannia!

[@lilblackduc7312]

Rothschilds rule the U.S. through the power of banks.

[@sylviaroberts8103]

I’m British and you make me feel good 🤍

[@lordeden2732]

Thanks from the bottom of the heart of Britain's living in what used to be called during the Second World War as Little America. East Anglia because of the high number of American military bases in our area. We enjoyed meeting and working alongside loads of Young American men and women who came over to help in our war effort. For which we will be eternally grateful. And we take great pride in looking after the memorial of those who sadly did not get to go home, including those who had no know graves and those who remain on British soil at Madingley in Cambridgeshire. We also have the pleasure of young Americans serving today at R.A.F. Mildenhall and Lakenheath. They are fine ambassadors for the U.S.A.

[@pamdawson8598]

We have loads to be thankful to the British nation. These movies are valuable capsules of history. Teaching history would be a start. No country has a clean historic record. But rewriting history is a crime against humanity. Democracy and free speech has been long and hard earned. By the way I am not British.

[@leatharay3565]

I am finding these movies so great

[@bilbaggins1]

Roy Boutling was a great British movie maker.Nothing wasted, nothing overstated. Captured the era faithfully. Pity the uploader felt the need to have a huge advert hanging permanently on screen. BOO HISS.

[@petescare13]

Uploaded over a decade ago, back when the options for free DVD conversion software were more limited. This advertisement logo is not included because the person who uploaded the movie wanted it there, the software adds it automatically unless you pay for the premium version. Today we rarely see movies with that because it's cheap enough to buy the software license, and also most of the free apps don't add that huge permanent watermark that's so distracting.

[@petescare13]

I should have said it's easy to mistake the odd movies on here with the free software logos with the terrible channels that Do intentionally add their own distracting logos, I've seen one in particular that isn't satisfied with one in the corner but uses two of those and a third that's placed halfway to the left border from the center, talk about distracting and unwatchable smh 🙄 but it's a channel that had black and white era movies so some of you probably saw it too.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

The same movie is on YT minus the ad. Hannah should delete this post and use a better one. Reposting bad stuff just adds to the enormous amount of bad 'stuff' on YT. You can't just rip the first thing you see, and if it's flawed like this one, skip it until you find a better one.

[@mjworthington]

@@rescuepetsrule6842. Blah blah...stfu and don't watch ffs.

[@jeannehageman3198]

Love these older movies....can't get enough of them. Better acting & plots, no vulgarity and time killing, never-ending car chases. Much better content that today's movies!

[@laurabrowning7973]

Absolutely gripping! I can't write any more about this film without parroting the praise from the other reviews. I, too, am glad I stumbled upon this movie! Thank you so much for posting!!

[@SantiagoBernebeu]

Brilliant script of espionage filmed at Pinewood Studios. This is an English film of quality with some wonderful performers. Some well-known names in there as well. If only we could be treated to quality like this in this generation, but sadly we won't be. Entertaining indeed and highly recommended. Many thanks for posting. Much appreciated.

[@RickDeckard6531]

Maybe Guy Ritchie will do a remake.

[@aalexander928]

Even more appropriate movie today than in 1951. Thank you so much for posting.

[@albertgrant1017]

How true. FROM ACROSS THE POND .

[@cdorman11]

The American analogue was to target US steel production; therefore, the Party did heavy recruiting in the Pittsburgh area. To expect to hold the country at ransom with such a meager strategy was an absurd ambition -- less sensible than the one in this movie. Nevertheless, they had to be countered. Matt Cvetic was the hero there, infiltrating the Pittsburgh branch of the Party for 9 years. In his final cover-blowing move, he ferried two file boxes of Party documents to the FBI. The radio show "I Was a Communist for the FBI" took liberties, such as making Cvetic's stories an amalgamation of several undercover agents' work. I would recommend the two biographies about Cvetic if you prefer this movie's more matter-of-fact flavor. Either way, they all get into the unhappy family dynamics, same as this film.

[@dandrake3320]

I was born in 1944 in Birmingham, England. We all had great respect for our American allies. During the food rationing years it was wonderful that the American GIs seemed to carry and endless supply of gum! Any gum chum? Funny thing is that I couldn't eat it now. My jaws couldn't cope!

[@Weyjx]

Do you mean chum gum two in a pack

[@dizzman5546]

The actors have proper English speaking voices. What a joy to hear 😊.

[@rostislavmulyeev760]

Absolutely brilliant. Many, many thanks for posting such a gem!

[@manfredwilliams3860]

What a gem, fast paced, good acting, great dialogue and lovely period location shots. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

[@gailjarvis2592]

If I hear the word "gem" to describe another movie I'll.....!

[@manfredwilliams3860]

@@gailjarvis2592 'movie'? Are you American? We call them films.

[@rogerquintanilla863]

They also seems the bad guys are like Progressives here in the USA. Just saying.

[@AB-kg6rk]

@@manfredwilliams3860 like the brown and yellow "films" on the teeth of many superior English people?

[@manfredwilliams3860]

@@AB-kg6rk Better to have imperfect teeth rather than huge guts and tiny brains.

[@giopomerol3952]

English moves are such a breath of fresh air.

[@timjoyce8636]

This is a really great movie - from more than 70 years ago. Thank you for uploading it.

[@markritchie8874]

Damn, we used to make good films. This is another gem I'd never heard of, many thanks for uploading.

[@mercyvasq]

Excellent movie i love this era of black and white films thankyou

[@elaineglendinning9297]

This was a great film. I love the atmosphere of the old black and white films and recognising actors/actresses from their younger days. It is weird to watch someone run to a phone box without thinking just for a few seconds 'why doesn't he use his mobile'.

[@TheMarie2000]

Exactly

[@patriciabullock2793]

Absorbing, with great shots of London; I love the black & white; also nice to see Joan Hickson when she was young and not playing Miss Marple...

[@crankbv1]

A great film,thoroughly enjoyed it. An excellent story line and a tightly woven plot. And not a bad actor among them. Although I'm an addict of old films I must confess that I hadn't seen or even heard of this little gem before. Ah...the days before electronic surveillance,when detectives had to get out there and do the leg work in order to put a case together. My late brother was a detective inspector back in the 60s/70s and was probably one of the last of that particular breed before computers came in to do the leg work for them. As opposed to fading into obscurity, a lot of the actors here went on to enjoy long and successful careers to a greater or lesser degree. Incidentally, Kenneth Griffith died about nine weeks ago, a fine actor. he was eighty four.

[@None-zc5vg]

Note Anthony Bushell's expression at 33.40, on finding himself next to Michael Ward in the Music Society audience.

[@cattymajiv]

Kenneth Griffith was in many great movies, almost always as a villian.

[@noorgonzalez1076]

John 5:28 Revelation 21:3,4

[@saintexupery8406]

WHY?

[@persiancarpet5028]

Than you for this terrific film . Great actors AND Battersea Power Station. Much appreciate the trouble you took to put this film up so we can enjoy these great British classics.

[@susansutton2012]

Absolutely brilliant film, great acting and storyline. Wish they still made films like this nowadays. 👍

[@susanpound317]

I love British Films. Their actors don't have to be handsome or a size 4, all they have to do is be good actors and actresses.

[@monikamiliczka6104]

Susan Pound come on!! Size 4!

[@DD-bz6qc]

Susan Pound ! I’m American & I’ve said those exact words to my family and friends. British films and tv puts ours to shame, overall

[@spaceytracey1237]

@@monikamiliczka6104 I think she's talking in USA sizes.. I know that they have a size zero which is like a UK size 6.. (I think?)

[@joekabotz734]

I second your motion. Elegant English along with a good holsom movie.

[@joekabotz734]

@@DD-bz6qc so agreed

[@virginiastevens3782]

Great film well done . Love the old films. Yet again another winner . Thank you.🇬🇧❤️

[@christineholbrook1107]

Wonderful film , despite giant Aimersoft logo . The film was so good after a while I just didn't notice . Even stared Joan Hickson who played mum and who later played Miss Marple , my favourite actress in that role . Great acting .

[@jeannieap413]

I thought that was her. Great actress.

[@SuzyDogLover]

I really like this movie, this is my very favorite type of movie, black and white, great era, great dialogue

[@jstearns918]

Thoroughly wonderful British film. Thank you for posting. Love the British post WW2 films. Wonderful acting, script and direction.

[@DrMoorehen]

rarely seen British classic thank you for hosting

[@rainwalker2254]

A relevant movie. "Wherever people have known the light, they don't tolerate the darkness for very long."

[@johncresswell-plant2913]

How often do you get a truly philosophical Command-Level Police Officer?

[@benjaminfreyman4273]

@@johncresswell-plant2913 doubt since the 50s.

[@VLind-uk6mb]

@@johncresswell-plant2913 Whose hobby is Greek ceramics?

[@THESHOMROM]

I wasn't expecting much. Wow was I surprised. This is an excellent film from the writing, directing, location, design and acting.

[@loisrossi841]

Savvy director, managing all these moving parts. Thank you.

[@chriscarlson3567]

Quite forgot about the logo due to the fact that this was a most enjoyable film, thank you for posting.

[@Mizzayizza1]

Iv'e watched this movie many times over the years, and I can't but think how it correlates to what's happening tin today's world in 2022. Man's quest for power, no matter how many lives are lost, just to stay seated in "government." No, it's not a new idea, but it sure "hits close to home."

[@georgeeliot2012]

No, not “man’s” quest for power. One DingDon & his Crime Family Syndicate’s corrupt grip on power - that is what hits home.

[@janjerge1484]

​​​@@georgeeliot2012 - YOU NAILED IT!! AND SO ELOQUENTLY SAID!! Alas, as in "The Emperor Has NO Clothes" too few can see it, or are willing to admit it!! More's the pity!! I only hope our nation survives!! 💙💙

[@geowynleda4641]

That was excellent! I was on the edge of my seat, even though I knew it would be all right. Some great actors and some great acting.

[@fritula6200]

These English films are so unique of their time. Please remember the quality of acting everyday lives in these films and making them interesting is quite a “feat” of extraordinary actors, never shall this be repeatedly again in our lifetimes. I thank the men and women and children for choosing this career to give me entertainment. God bless them !

[@BoPeep8]

If you enjoy watching the logo "Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac" plastered conspicuously in large letters in the upper left corner of this film, you've certainly come to the right place.

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Very Well-Done!!! I suspect that if We we’re All aware of how closeTyranny & Destruction are to Us at all-times, We would be paralyzed with fear. I Thank & Praise-God for actively protecting and defending Us at all-times!!!

[@paulwhitlock4443]

I love these old 50s movies, thanks for putting them on KZbin.

[@falconvisionuav]

I'm so embarrassed of our current state of affairs within Hollywood. We have lost so much talent that it created a vacuum. Technology will never replace art. Our universities are to blame and it will take a long time to replace.

[@Michelle-Eden]

It took 800 years the last time.

[@GerMar-ln8rb]

MAGAs on school boards and fascist governors are to blame. Florida for example

[@georgetissot5933]

It's a very tight and well moving movie. The characters are rich and well defined. It's fascinating to see London and how it look and acted soon after World War Two. Thank you for downloading the film. Keep up the great work.

[@williamf4544]

Wow Joan Hicksen ,Dora Bryan,Jean Anderson,Dandy Nicols all huge tv stars later on

[@raymondcaylor6292]

Over a half million views. Thanks for the upload. I really enjoy the street scenes from these old films.

[@petroniaskho]

What a nice surprise to find this on youtube. Thank you for sharing.

[@burnettis1]

Lots of subsequently famous actors in this excellent film. I enjoyed it, immensely 😊

[@alexandrinamiller4734]

Once again, the best. There is nothing to compare with an British Movie. Thank you Hannah Clulow, for sharing; too, your marvelous Mum for sharing with her students. The logo, initially distracting, the acting, plot etc., was so captivating, that the logo for myself, disappeared into oblivion. A gem indeed!!!

[@davidbanks4168]

Keep coming back to this film, thanks.

[@bamaboogiewoogie8794]

I came here to watch the Aimersoft logo and that damn film got in the way.

[@M500VYN]

Me too. Even took away the colour from my screen

[@thelmaschoen8980]

Yeah... me too.

[@glendooer6211]

I put a strip of packaging tape over mine..Did not work either

[@deborahleone4351]

bama boogiewoogie LMAO!!!!😂😂😂🤭

[@all4senna]

Lol!!!

[@rn1005018]

Thank you so much for sharing this terrific movie. I truly appreciate this!

[@dorothyparker100]

Very enjoyable film. The theme and pace of the script made it for me. Thank you for uploading

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

High Treason and high drama! From a time when British films were really good. Thank heavens it hasn't been "colourised! Thanks for sharing!

[@deborahflello2316]

Wonderfully exciting and fast paced film with a great cast of players.

[@Simplelifeusapinay]

Great movie. The price to pay is high. Lives of people who fight those who are evil and wicked. Great ending, thanks to those who protect nations from harm.

[@hayden1188]

It's a good film. A lot of tension, excitement and good dialogue. Also good sound and picture quality. Thanks for posting. (pity about the constant logo, but I forgot about it after a while).

[@EI6DP]

One brilliant film with great acting and the Morse Signals were perfect and correct.

[@freespeechforall1069]

Great film, thank you.

[@evelynhilliard2634]

rather see the logos and enjoy the great movie, than not get to see this most enjoyed movie! Hannah, thank you for time and effort for my being able to enjoy this movie. So sorry you have to hear from folks are jerks! tell I said it, from los angeles , california

[@ronmartinmhg2804]

I was so enthralled by the film that after awhile I did not notice the logo. My father worked on the building of Battersea power station. Nice one!

[@darjeeling6432]

What a great film. Tight. I watched the whole film without any interruption. Thank you.

[@elainewhite4995]

Great film loads of wonderful British actors some went on to be stars of 60s and 70s tv shows 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you 😊

[@assa92004]

There can never be enough of a logo.. more logo please... :)

[@Mark-vd4gg]

What a beauty lots of suspense interesting and gripping plot and well drawn characters. Thanks for uploading Hannah!

[@susanmullins7713]

I love that door built for under stairs💞

[@gerberjoanne266]

Great movie! Thanks so much for uploading it. I didn't think the logo was too bad. I was able to ignore it without a problem. In other videos, they try to get around copyright issues by speeding up or slowing down the tape, or by cutting off part of the picture. This was far better than those practices.

[@waltergold3457]

If you liked this remarkable film, try THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET. It's a little less flashy but no less engrossing.

[@FRANKTHRING1]

This is a truly marvellous movie that zips along like a firecracker, one of a series of neo-realist British police dramas in the early 1950s, using real London locations which today give a terrific insight into how the West End looked c.1951. The cast contains some of the great British characters performers of the period - Andre Morell (later star of Hammer Horrors) and Anthony Bushell as policemen, nervy Kenneth Griffith and sly Charles Lloyd Pack as Commie spys, Joan Hickson (later "Miss Marple") as a mum, Dora Bryan (who died only this month) as a silly woman obsessed with her kettle. The good guys are MI5, the baddies a never-directly mentioned band of Communist sabouteurs. Rousing music score, nice sets, the production written by the Boulting Brothers, one of their earliest efforts..

[@greggi47]

I thought the Mum looked familiar. Thanks for tipping me off to Joan Hickson--one of the very best choices to portray Miss Marple.

[@albertgrant1017]

The Boulting Brothers produced and f

[@albertgrant1017]

The Boulting Brothers directed and produced great films .

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

Thank you from Manhattan ©2024

[@shaunlowthian4234]

What an amazing cast list, many thanks.

[@chuckabutty888]

Amazing cast indeed and so young especially Victor Maddern one of my favourite actors.

[@GregCushman]

Yes again we find great movies to take us all back many lifetimes ago.When our grandparents and parents were alive . They lived like these people and dealt with this earlier decade in time. Remember and pass on this knowledge to the younger people when possible. .Yes a great movie and thanks to the Movie Keepers for what they do for us all...

[@Aut0five]

6 years after end of ww2 and the idea of a power hungry individual is not forgotten in the UK. Pinewood / HMG propaganda but well executed. great cast, script and locations. Logo not noticed after couple of minutes. thanks for upload Hannah Clulow

[@bretescott-n8q]

Far superior actors! Love watching them too!😎

[@EdgarAlexai]

I'm writing my undergrad dissertation on the representation of Communism and the Soviet Union in British Cold War Cinema and this is one of the films I desperately needed to see. Thank you so, so, so much you've made my day! :D

[@LyonsKevin]

Saw your post, can you recommend other films on this theme from your dissertation research? Thanks....

[@EdgarAlexai]

Yo! Sorry for not replying sooner, I didn't see the notification until now. Erm... rather than specific films I can direct you to an academic source that's been like my Bible. Tony Shaw's British Cinema and the Cold War. I'm studying "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and "Conspirator" (1949) alongside this one. :)

[@stuartlawsonbeattie1411]

Well said Alex, I'm alright Jack is one of the best movies ever made, it tells of the mad unions and employers and the movies is directly in the middle with subject, object and the percieved pain involved. Cheers.

[@jimclark6256]

You're writing a dissertation on a movie of fiction? How accurate is that going to be?

[@keithspurgin8039]

@@jimclark6256 Accurate as to perceptions?

[@emiliomartinez7556]

What a fantastic movie. Just my kind. Thank you

[@haroldofcardboard]

thoroughly enjoyed this well made classic. thank you for the upload. an ole south london boy here :)

[@rayman46]

Excellent film , worth the watch .

[@billhuber2964]

I LOVE THESE OLD BRITISH FLICKS . THANKS 4 POSTING !!!

[@susannah-cq8he]

Good little movie

[@carlnapp8673]

Isn't it amazing what wonderful cars have been built in Britain, I could watch them all night. Furthermore I like these movies because of the civilized English that is spoken.

[@mark-wn5ek]

Their cars were and are, garbage. Jag-u-ars.....what's a jag-u-ar?! Is it like an ell-E-phant? All had hideously unreliable Lucas ignition or similar. Rolling garbage.

[@greggi47]

@@mark-wn5ek But they can look wonderful sometimes.

[@fahmyayoob5775]

What a wonderful movie....thank you uploader 👌👍

[@marilynstevenson865]

The police - asking the shopkeeper if he had seen the deceased - = Yes.."He'd come in yesterday to pay his radio instalment"" ..Those words really hit me like a sledge hammer!! I remember, as a young girl living in the Eastern Suburbs in the 1950's, my mother, or father, had a small booklet with pages that they would fill out and take to the local Post Office..with money to pay for the ""radio instalment"!!! I always thought it horrible that we would have to pay for the pleasure of listening to the (rather antiquated) radio perched in a special spot in the kitchen!!! An amazing memory along with the horse drawn cart that the Milko had, and the Ice Man..filling up the Ice Chest..(he used to chip off a bit of ice for my sister and myself!!), Wow...The young people of today would never believe this!!! I think it is wonderful!!!

[@ivanppillay914]

Thank you for the wonderful memories, Marilyn.

[@marilynstevenson865]

@@ivanppillay914 it’s a pleasure Ivan.. good days fir a child

[@ivanppillay914]

@@marilynstevenson865 : Yes, indeed. Take care, Marilyn.

[@MS-zu8ds]

Should have said "wireless".

[@VLind-uk6mb]

It was known as hire purchase. Basically pre-credit card -- you paid a deposit and then paid something off monthly, or weekly.

[@derrickwaggott2098]

excellent FILM REALLY ENJOYED IT SO MANY RECOGNISABLE FACES

[@kathyh4804]

Really good movie! It truly makes one wonder how many MPs there are at this time with the same agenda! A scary thought but quite plausible. Thank you 🌹

[@yankeecitygirl]

food processing plant explosions

[@donnie6513]

Good film, thanks ! I got here via Dominic Sandbrook's excellent history book "Never Had It So Good"

[@globalspiritualrevolutionmedia]

British actors & actresses are the very best in the World Today - because the British Stage Training is the best in the World.

[@garyolsen3409]

You are probably right. As an American I don't mind saying that. In the 30's,40's, and 50's we produced a lot of very professional actors and actresses that took pride in their work. They made clean, fun quality movies But comes along the 80's and it all changes. Trashy loud mouthed actors. Trashy movies, nudity, foul language, violence. Sad

[@leoamery]

Meghan Markle disagrees with you, and she made sure Harry does too.

[@peterhunt5890]

Brilliant acting wonderful cast. Really enjoyed this film. Thank you

[@trilbywilby7826]

*FABULOUS* movie. Excellent acting. So nuanced. Great plot pacing and location shots. The logo was distracting at first but the actors and the story line pull you in to the picture and you're just gone. Thank you for uploading.

[@chucksnightmare7674]

@trilbywilby7826--- logo removal would still be best. Everyone likes a completely CLEAN full picture. Thank you.

[@Robert-ts2ef]

Excellent British thriller and I hope you can post more of this quality of British movies.

[@jacklynlondon7067]

Thank you for putting this on.

[@miriambryant6975]

Thank you for sharing - excellent movie - after a few minutes, I didn't notice the logo because the movie was intriguing!

[@SuperIliad]

Well done. Why the Rank-era flms are my favorites.

[@blahblah2556]

This film is pure magic. Loved it. thx

[@holmanrw]

Roy Boulting's sequel to the more famous Boulting Bros. Seven Days to Noon. Wonderful cast. Good quality recording, sound as clear as a bell. Advertising logo is a little annoying but still well worth watching.

[@melokc7257]

Joan Hickson 'Miss Marple' as mom. Aww yeah🥰

[@nicolek4076]

Wonderful Art Deco interrior of Battersea Power Station before it was left to rot for twenty years.

[@lorihenderson673]

Great little enemble film. Thanks

[@carlabroderick5508]

Scoring with modern music and humorous tunes, fascinating.

[@paulwellard4206]

great film ,many thanks for taking the time to put it up.

[@midwestslotdiva]

Wow!!! Joan Hickson aka Miss Marple is in this gem.

[@haroldsmith45302]

One of the very best films ever. Thank you for uploading it, Hannah Clulow.

[@marilynstevenson865]

Jolly good show!!! A umber or familiar faces who always make for superb acting, and watching pleasure!!

[@sarahellis5286]

Thank you for uploading a great film!

[@lookoutleo]

Love these old English films , Joan Hickson , miss Marple 40 years later , just great

[@HDTurnerJr]

Thank you. I imagine the composer enjoyed writing the various pieces given at the musical society's concerts.

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

Absolutely brilliant script ❤